DOUBT

Would I call your name
Through the ruins of emptied halls?
Could I see your face
Within passions yet unborn?
Speak fragile truths into the air
So new and cold
Could I lie to you?
Could I live this life alone?


Fade to the year's cascading dreams of hope and light
Through vacant thoughts the eve is found in stormy skies
To the years cascading dreams of hope and loss
Our painted world shall see an end to all we find

Would I take your hand
Would I lead you from the mist
In another place
Where the sun can never set?
Years carry us into the certainty of doubt
Could I lie to you?
Could I leave you here alone?

Soon enough the ice will break
Falling down lost in melting years
Soon enough the dawn awakens
Holding tight memories of our love
And our loss



THE RAIN WITHIN HER HANDS

Here shadows move of their own will
Through the twilight
I call a nameless place my home

And castles fall into the past for you

Tonight find the starlit rain within her hands
As sand suffocates beneath the seas again
Nights such as this may find us here but once
So throw dreams away and never wish again

Reflections shatter in my grip
My body shivers
With energy that can believe
I struggle in your presence though you
May not see
I care for everything you are

The palest nights are yours
May they stand against the storm
May they live within you




RELICS

As our faith bleeds into day
This feeble dream is born
As dark as winter's voice
As silent as the rain
A place is found within
Where hearts are formed in glass
And fragile songs are heard
As mist from ancient times


Everyone will fall again
Everything shall die again

And within a violet rose
Matures to fall in ash
Our tears, confirmed, do sleep
To trouble us no more
And in the dimming light
Here eyes still grace my thoughts
As haunting as the sea,
As soft as winter's touch




AWAY

Away, we grow cold as years pass
Who we were echoes still


I remember your smile still
Though you're far away
I remember tears on your face
Though the reasons fade

Away, for so long we were one
Though dreams fade we are strong

Rain is merely tears on your face
Yet still hope remains

So long my love may we never fade
Our time lives on in a land within
So our eyes may find smiles from our distant days
And at night our stars burn as long as before




NEVERLAND

Don't lie awake
Restless, cold
Drown yourself
Into the deep Neverland
Drown yourself
Just close your eyes, silently
See the gleam of sand of solace


Rise
Fall before the Fey goodnight
One last look into the eyes
Tarry for you'll never die
For now and ever with us

Nocturna's call throughout time
And before
Through ancient seas and dark lands
Long before
Engulfing dreams, enthralling
The collapsing skies engraved

Call
Fall before the Fey goodnight
One last look into the eyes
Tarry for you'll never die
For now and ever with us
Rise

Into the night where lies
dance with the darkest dreams
and cries fall before this
her voice, all before this sleeps in me
sleeps in me, Delirium enchants me
lie with me
to die




WHERE SHADOWS LIE

In the gloom of dead night
Whispers reach your ears
Claws scrape closet doors
And teeth eclipse nightmares
There's a fear that burns inside
When waking dreams have gone
Spiders crawl along your spine
And shadows grasp your arms


What's not there is in the mirror
Cobwebbed fears becoming clearer
Fading fast you never see them
Ever coming without reason
Where shadows lie

Lurking fear lingers long
Though stricken match obeyed
There's a dripping darkness
That lingers 'til the day
For dark beasts are watching you
When you turn out the lights
Watch your back young children
Pray you rest safe through the night



AUTUMN

Voice as quiet as the rain
He whispers in the wind
Caressing softly weary words, his kiss
And Autumn comes with amber eyes
Pale as the night
To enfold the storm


To dance
Within the frost
To carry dreams of life away to dust
To cry
Your name out loud
To carry fear away cast down the shroud
To die

When summer fades to silence
When winter's still a dream
And solemn sleep to you is blind again
Then Autumn comes with amber eyes
Pale as the night
To enthrall your soul

To dance
Within the dust
To carry dreams of life turned into frost
To cry
Your name out loud
To carry fear away cast down the shroud
To die
To shatter doubt

And when the years have passed away
When memories have gone
And darkness is your day
Your dreams of Autumn carry you to days of youth and life

And sorrow falls before the drifts of faded scarlet skies
When Autumn called your name
Only the silence calls your name



THE METRO

I'm alone
sitting with my empty glass
my four walls
follow me through my past
i was on a paris train
i emerged in london rain
and you were waiting there
swimming through apologies


i remember searching for the perfect words
i was hoping you might change your mind
i remember a soldier sleeping next to me
riding on the metro

you wore white
smiling as you took my hand
so removed
we spoke of wintertime in france
minutes passed with shallow words
years have passed and still the hurt
i can see you now
smiling as you pulled away

i remember the letter wrinkled in my hand
"i'll love you always" filled my eyes
i remember a night we walked along the seine
riding on the metro

i remember a feeling coming over me
the soldier turned, then looked away
i remember hating you for loving me
riding on the metro



MIST AND STONE

There was a twilight in your eyes
Long before the end
When the shadows fell
Becoming one with night
Faith then followed you
Deep into the earth
To dream as
dead men do
Of candles, mist and stone


To the timeless years windows open wide
The reigning silence dies as angels sing tonight

There was no laughter in your eyes
When we first embraced
As sorrows I've not known
Danced and swayed with grace
Follow me, my love
Into the coldest worlds
And be as we once were
If only 'til the day

And your eyes spoke of devotion
As I took your hand
For this age you'll wait forever
Though I shall be there
My spirit walks with you, my love



THE DAWNING

The book is found, the pages read
As times fallen and forgotten rise
And I stand alone with dread


Impending doom is whispered in the fog
I watch and wait with fearful heart
To see the dark ones take my hand

Within this place the mirrors mock and laugh
As one by one they fall to Ash
It seems the dawn shall never set

With rusted blade I sever those I've loved
To stand a martyr bathed in blood
To find an age unknown to me

Into my world a spirit wakes
Screaming from the walls and glass
And in the pages morning stirs
Seemingly a hope is born
And from the sky a warrior falls
Weary with remorse and death

To rise and fall


DECEMBER DREAMS

Turn away as the storm draws near
Hear the thunder's distant cry
Taste the air to find a trace of yesterday
Falling under waves of time


Her twilight eyes turn the night sky red
Timeless words cannot fade
Though our skies grow grey

Haunted winds speak of fallen homes
Painted eyes leave a tear
In her heart I place a promise that shall live
Amongst December's fondest dreams

To never find this life again
To never find our way



AS NIGHT CALLS

Morning frost settles on the land
See the grey clouds gather
All I ever fear is the dawn
See her fade into me


Are you still there as night calls?
Dance to the sound of tears on the cold stone
For you I pray as night calls
Dance to the sound of tears on the cold stone

And we were so strong in our day
Your smile was my heaven
All I ever fear is the past
See time fade into me

For everyone falls from me...
And this age forever
Stand as a torch that still burns within December rain

And December rain shall ever fall



WINTER

Her chamber waits through timeless days
For her lost warmth and her voice
And the haunting way she moves against the wind
In such silence


Set blue skies aflame
For in the dark I hear her name
Forge the steel of fragile hope
Let the tapers burn throughout this night

As so the blue dawn sets
Strewn with white clouds in the sky
And our eyes meet through the haze
Of distant years and fallow dreams

When you hear the ghostly winds calling soft
Just close your eyes
When you hear the thunder roll through the past
Just hold me near



THE LAST

The reason finds the aching sky
And torment learns its name
Fading dreams awash with fear
Of a prophecy that lives
Will you be there at my side
With farewell held to our hearts?
For so little can be said
As the end has found its time

The nights seem far away
And I fall into the midst of our dying day
Fear

The screams are heard against the sighs
As a blade against the skin
Empires fail to face the truth
As a world is left with time

To the dreams of what was shared
throughout the evenings warmest winds
Our lives shall stand among the ruin
To ever echo through the grey